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First Windows "Mango" phone unveiled

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First Windows "Mango" phone unveiled
The first smartphone based on the new "Mango" edition of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform was unveiled on Wednesday in Tokyo. Read More


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Microsoft's gamble: Metro UI as the new face of Windows
The tile-based Metro user interface that runs on Windows Phones will soon be the look and feel of all devices in Microsoft's ecosystem. Is this smart streamlining or a foolish consistency? Read More

Microsoft extends SUSE Linux partnership
Extending a partnership established in 2006, Microsoft has renewed a working agreement to resell SUSE Linux and help develop new Windows interoperability tools for the OS. Read More

Top tech industry news stories of 2011 -- so far
Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, Google and others are givens for being among the top newsmakers of 2011. Others will no doubt surprise us as we go along. Read More


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Do Android and Windows really have 35% of the tablet market?
A new report seems to show Android and Windows making headway in the battle to topple Apple's iPad at the top of the tablet market. Read More

Cisco rival Juniper lands Microsoft's Muglia
It was a cleaner software foundation that attracted former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia to Cisco rival Juniper Networks. That, and the fact that he was familiar with many executives at Juniper from his days at Microsoft. Read More

'IPv6 brokenness' problem appears fixed
The Internet's biggest content providers -- including Yahoo, Facebook and Google -- are reporting a significant decline in their measurements of "IPv6 brokenness," a term that describes end users with misconfigured systems that can't access websites supporting the next-generation Internet protocol called IPv6. Read More


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PC market downshifting, says Gartner
After a several years of strong growth, the PC market is downshifting to a slower, but hopefully steady, growth path, according to Gartner analysts. Read More

Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion
Microsoft last week confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system. Read More

The new IT guys
Here I am on the tail-end of my first large company talk ever. Sure, I've addressed business units, small groups, etc in meetings, but never before have I ever been called on to give a presentation to 100+ people in a company. And this brings up something I've been meaning to talk about for quite some time. The new age IT guy vs the old age IT guy. Read More

Mango ripens, gets sent to manufacturers
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it had shipped Mango, the codename for the next version of Windows Phone 7, to manufacturers to begin optimizing it for their specific phone and network. Translation: it's done. Cooked. Finished. Until the next rev, of course. Read More



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